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Re:Ask HN: Good languages for closed-source desktop apps by bendmorris on Saturday October 02, 2010 @11:11PM (#1751983)
Your article was an excellent read, so thanks for the link. I generally agree with a lot of what you're saying.

My potential audience is pretty targeted - mainly research scientists and possibly some government workers. They'll likely be more computer savvy than the average user (on average, at least - some scientists I know are just as bad as Grandma.) What I worry about in considering a web app is:

1 - People want to be able to run the software anywhere, any time, without a connection to the internet.

2 - When entering large amounts of data, which is potentially sensitive, into an application, it seems like people would trust a desktop app more.

Number 2 is subjective, but as a scientist myself, I would feel better about a program running on my own machine.

Any thoughts?

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Re:Ask HN: Good languages for closed-source desktop apps by rmc on Sunday October 03, 2010 @01:04PM (#1753061)
The latest version of HTML has the ability to do offline apps. i.e. you write your application in Javascript as a webapp, and it can run offline. You can store data locally in the browser and get javascript notifications when you are back online so you can sync.
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